Its all true, the boogie girl is real, and you've found her. She knits, sews, spins, does pottery and writes it all down in this blog.
Monday, April 26, 2004
Bad Hockey, Good Knitting
I've never seen such a worse officiated game in my life. We went to the Pirates (Our local AHL team) playoff game. I've seen bad games but after there were 13 penalties in 2 periods on one team, a penalty shot against them, and a disallowed goal, I was sure something was up. Grrrrr. Even my quiet husbeast was hollering at the ref (he never does that). Come to find out, the game he officiated on Friday was much the same. He was clearly one sided and the game got out of hand in the end. I hope he gets fired. But wait! I can bring knitting into this story so its not a total loss for those of you that aren't hockey fans, but why wouldn't you be hockey fans, hockey rocks! The story:
I'm sitting there knitting before the game starts and a little girl in front of us with her dad is watching me intently.
Her dad turns and says "knit one purl one, she's knitting hon."
Me "its actually knit 2 purl 2"
Man: "oh, ribbing"
Me: You knit?
Man: Yeah but I prefer to crochet, I like to make afghans and such.
Its always nice to meet other knitters. But it doesn't stop there. A couple of rows up another lady was knitting something. I didn't get a chance to talk to her as my daughter was non stop. The last game we took her to was an evening game and she konked out during the 2nd period. Not so this time. She kept right on going, so much energy in such a little body.
On to knitting:
I finished little Miss M's tank yesterday morning.
**edit**Click to see the larger view and pattern
2-3 days to finish that. I love little kids clothes when I feel motivated. I started on a full sleeve sweater for her out of the same yarn that is left over. This top took one whole skein of the variegated and about 1/4 of the green. The only finishing is adding the Icord straps. I'll make one for me eventually. Its easy cheesy!
Other projects:
Urban Aran: 1 inch left on the sleeves. Then I can start the fun that is seaming.
Footie socks: I stopped at the heel. I can't decide if I want to do a short row heel or a flap and gusset. ahh such hard decisions.
Kate: at the armhole. I didn't do much on this past weekend as I got involved in all my other projects.
I'm also working on a bunch of sewing projects. Ive made some capris for both of us and a couple of new tops. I've got more cut and ready. Kids stuff is just too cute.
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